Get a free 1/2 bottle of Billecart Salmon Rose on Valentine’s Day. Here’s how…
Yes, it’s true. You can always count on ‘Sleuthy to find the good stuff and pass it on. Billecart Salmon has teamed up with a number of quality restaurants in London to bring you this Valentine’s Day promotion. All you have to do is o...
Champagne Pierre Darcys NV
Champagne isn't my favourite wine, but I do like it. There are some occasions which really suit fizz. Christmas morning and New Year's Eve, weddings, new jobs, that kind of thing. Very often a Cava, Prosecco or even Asti will do the trick really wel...
Weekly Wine Quiz: Room To Grow?
Hereby marketh the fourth installment of the Weekly Wine Quiz! Based on feedback from ever-so-vocal-and-intelligent YOU, I will not be supplying the answer directly in the post – you will need to tune back in later in the comments section for the answer. So you can put your answer in the comments for potential bragging...
Wine Tasting Video: Five Champagnes – three NVs + two 2004s
Champagne Canard-Duchêne Charles VII Grande Cuvée Le Victorieux NV (£35 Majestic) An odd mix of honeyed biscuity maturity with rather tart green apple immaturity, not hugely classy, but honest and quite tasty B Champagne Moët & Chandon Brut Imp...
Pop! Go The Bubbles: What To Pour For Your Most Sparkly Occasions
Whether it’s New Years Eve, Valentine’s Day, Easter brunch – or any festive holiday – sparkling wines are a wonderful way to celebrate. In fact, a good bubbly can turn even a regular ol’ Wednesday night into a spec...
Weekly Wine Quiz: When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters?
Continuing our Champagne theme for the Weekly Wine Quiz, we’ve got a relatively tough question queued up this week. Let’s see which of you Champers fans really knows his or her (or, if you’re a hermaphrodite, his AND her) stuff… When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters? Champagne production is one of the...
Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs
le Mesnil-sur-Ogers, France. Chardonnay. 12%. Cork. Approx $A85Quite delicious and certainly more pleasing than just about any other equivalently priced Champagne I can recall. Made by a co-op of growers from grapes growing in esteemed soil, this is la...
Spur of the moment foodie weekend in Paris
I always enjoy last minute trips the most. There’s something about the spontaneity of getting up and going without knowing anything about the trip. This trip was not entirely unknown, I did know we were going to be staying in Central Paris at the...
Weekly Wine Quiz: The Secret History Of Champagne?
There’s been a good deal of positive reaction to my new contributions to the Wine Quiz section of The Juice newsletter (thanks for that, by the way!), and so I thought it would be fun to run each week’s Juice quiz here on 1WineDude.com, so that you can complain directly to me that the answers...
Twelfth Night and the 12th Day of Christmas
Ah, here we are, the final day of this series of “Twelve Days of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine.” I offer three examples, one charming Crémant de Bourgogne and two splendid Champagnes, thus bringing to conclusion this foray into different styles of French sparkling wines from various regions. Twelfth Night is the Eve of...
Tasting Notes Week of January 5, 2011
Aurielle 2008 A very smooth and well balanced California cab marked with "restraint" in terms of keeping med+ acid, smooth tannins, richly concentrated fruit in balance. The use of oak is only apparent from its benefit in terms of giving oxygen to the wine (new french oak and used). Lots of Bordeaux cherry, some...
